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From the Jacket :

Some very fundamental issues of science and
philosophy have been dealt with in this book. Knowledge, consciousness, freedom,
action, being and becoming are among those issues. Though analytic tools have
often been used to explicate the said concepts, the approach of this book does
not aim to be analytic in its narrow sense.

In most of the essays of the book Chattopadhyaya has liberally drawn on
science and philosophy, Indian and modern traditions, classical and contemporary
writers. Phenomenology and consciousness studies have received special attention
of the author in this work. The author has not allowed some such received points
of view as realism and idealism, transcendentalism and empiricism marked by
their attending variety and indefiniteness, to restrict his was of exploration
and explication of the basic concepts of philosophy of science and their
manysidedness. Because of the wide range of the themes of the book and their
transdisciplinary character it will be of interest not only to professional
philosophers and philosophers of science but also to social scientists and
general readers.

About the Author:

D.P. Chattopadhyaya M.A. LL.B., Ph.D. (Calcutta and London Schools of
Economics), D.Litt. (Honoris Causa), researched, studied and taught at various
universities in India, Asia, Europe and USA from 1954-1994. Founder-Chairman of
the Indian Council of Philosophical Research (1981-1990) and
President-cum-Chairman of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla
(1984-1991), Chattopadhyaya is currently the Project-Director of the
multidisciplinary 77-Vol. Project of HIstory of Science, Philosophy and Culture
in Indian Civilizations [PHISPC] and Chairman of the Centre for Studies in
Civilizations [CSC].